27 February 2023
Episode 438
15 minutes
UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist Paul Donovan joins the show to discuss some of the perennial issues with GDP as a metric and how the fourth industrial revolution is upending its primacy as a measure of growth.
27 February 2023
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